Dark Descent is a 5th edition sourcebook and setting guide for the brutal, terrifying underground realm of Deephold. Explore a lightless world of subterranean horror, unearth its secrets, and master the foul blood magic of its long-dead masters.
2 hardcover tomes full of all you need to delve into a world of ancient evil.
Awaiting between their pages are new races adapted to a lightless and unforgiving world, forbidden spells from the brand new school of infernalism, dark subclasses, expansive lore, magic items, and ravenous monsters.
Unearth the lost arcana of Deephold’s vanished rulers, the mysterious and debased Anak.
Spellcasters can now tap into infernalism - a forbidden school of magic that draws power from elder evils. This dark art includes 50+ new spells, each with the potential to be amplified at the risk of unleashing uncontrollable forces.
Adventurers may also master blood alchemy, crafting potions, balms, and poisons from the blood of others - or themselves. In Deephold, every monster is a potential reagent for a skilled alchemist.
Discover 8 brand new subterranean races adapted to the darkness of Deephold. Scurry away from harm as a perceptive, quick-limbed hulderling, or push yourself beyond mortal limits as an alchemically-fuelled fleshcraft.
Delve into forbidden secrets as one of 12 new subclasses. Channel the blood of your victims into profane healing magic as a Viscerist rogue, or become one with the darkness of the deep earth as a druid of the Circle of Gloom.
Dark Descent contains an expansive bestiary full of 70+ deadly subterranean terrors.
From the chittering, eyeless cannibals known as woldlings to the shadowy soul-eaters that stalk careless spellcasters through the dark, Deephold is teeming with terrifying monsters to menace your players with.
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These sculpts are works of art that are sure to make any mortal quake in their boots.
